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The Oort Cloud's dynamical evolution is significantly influenced by both the galactic tide and stellar flybys. This study investigates the particular case of HD7977's close encounter 2.47 Myr ago, which likely repopulated the Inner Oort…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Zhuoya Cao , Abraham Loeb , Morgan MacLeod

A numerical simulation of the Oort cloud is used to explain the observed orbital distributions and numbers of Jupiter-family and Halley-type short-period comets. Comets are given initial orbits with perihelion distances between 5 and 36 AU,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-07 V. V. Emel'yanenko , D. J. Asher , M. E. Bailey

The outer Solar System is believed to host a vast reservoir of long-period comets (LPCs), but our understanding of their spatial distribution and dynamical history remains limited due to observational biases and uncertainties in orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Piotr A. Dybczyński , Małgorzata Królikowska

We present Monte Carlo simulations of the dynamical evolution of the Oort cloud over the age of the Solar System, using an initial sample of one million test comets without any cloning. Our model includes perturbations due to the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Rickman , M. Fouchard , Ch. Froeschlé , G. B. Valsecchi

Comets are classified from their orbital characteristics into two separate classes: nearly-isotropic, mainly long-period comets and ecliptic, short-period comets. Members from the former class are coming from the Oort cloud. Those of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 J. Crovisier

One of the outstanding problems of the dynamical evolution of the outer solar system concerns the observed population ratio between the Oort Cloud (OC) and the Scattered Disc (SD): observations suggest that this ratio lies between 100 and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Brasser , A. Morbidelli

We study the influence of an open cluster environment on the formation and current structure of the Oort cloud. To do this, we have run 19 different simulations of the formation of the Oort Cloud for 4.5 Gyrs. In each simulation, the solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nathan A. Kaib , Thomas Quinn

Comets in the Oort cloud evolve under the influence of internal and external perturbations, such as giant planets, stellar passages, and the galactic tidal field. We aim to study the dynamical evolution of the comets in the Oort cloud,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Santiago Torres , Maxwell X. Cai , A. G. A. Brown , S. Portegies Zwart

We present a chronology of the formation and early evolution of the Oort cloud by simulations. These simulations start with the Solar System being born with planets and asteroids in a stellar cluster orbiting the Galactic center. Upon…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Simon Portegies Zwart , Santiago Torres , Maxwell X. Cai , Anthony Brown

Radio observations from decimetric to submillimetric wavelengths are now a basic tool for the investigation of comets. Spectroscopic observations allow us i) to monitor the gas production rate of the comets, by directly observing the water…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Crovisier , N. Biver , D. Bockelée-Morvan , P. Colom

We report the discovery of a minor planet (2006 SQ372) on an orbit with a perihelion of 24 AU and a semimajor axis of 796 AU. Dynamical simulations show that this is a transient orbit and is unstable on a timescale of 200 Myrs. Falling near…

The discovery probability of long-period comets (LPCs) passing near the Sun is highest during their first passage and then declines, or fades, during subsequent return passages. Comet fading is largely attributed to devolatilization and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Nathan A. Kaib

We simulate the formation and evolution of Oort clouds around the 200 nearest stars (within 16pc according to the Gaia DR2) database. This study is performed by numerically integrating the planets and minor bodies in orbit around the parent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Simon Portegies Zwart

Long-period comets observed in our solar system are believed to originate from the Oort cloud, which is estimated to extend from roughly a few thousand to $10^5$ AU from the Sun. Despite many theoretical arguments for its existence, no…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Eric J. Baxter , Cullen H. Blake , Bhuvnesh Jain

We examine the possibility that gamma-ray bursts arise from sources in the Oort comet cloud, basing most of our arguments on accepted models for the formation and spatial distribution of the cloud. We identify three severe problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 T. E. Clarke , O. Blaes , adn S. Tremaine

We study the dynamical properties of objects in hyperbolic orbits passing through the inner Solar system in the context of two different potential sources: interstellar space and the Oort cloud. We analytically derive the probability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Arika Higuchi , Eiichiro Kokubo

We present a fully integrated model of comet evolution that couples thermal and compositional processes with dynamical processes continuously, from formation to present-day activity. The combined code takes into account changes in orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Adam Parhi , Dina Prialnik

The long-term dynamics of Oort cloud comets are studied under the influence of both the radial and the vertical components of the Galactic tidal field. Sporadic dynamical perturbation processes are ignored, such as passing stars, since we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-15 E. Gardner , P. Nurmi , C. Flynn , S. Mikkola

Most comets are volatile-rich bodies that have recently entered the inner solar system following long-term storage in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud reservoirs. These reservoirs feed several distinct, short-lived "small body"…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Dave Jewitt

Wide-orbit exoplanets are starting to be detected, and planetary formation models are under development to understand their properties. We propose a population of "Oort" planets around other stars, forming by a mechanism analogous to how…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-06 Nora Bailey , Daniel Fabrycky